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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not aware of a serious attempt although I really wish we did eliminate it. It costs a lot of money and most kids do not get anything special from it or pursue the full program. [/quote]

I think part of the issue is that FCPS allows students to just take an IB class here or there rather than requiring he entire diploma in order to access the classes. Other school districts in other states don’t do this at all. Then they should just designate a few schools as IB and students who want to pursue that degree can transfer there like an academy school.
This will never happen. But I’m just saying that this is an odd thing that FCPS does with IB[/quote]

Making the diploma program participation a requirement is worse. It would not serve the students that can’t handle a large load of advanced coursework, which benefit from taking an a la carte class here and there to get a taste of college coursework and get some rigorous preparation under their belt. The problem is that for a college level class they’d have to take an HL which is two years, a large time investment for these students, so they dabble in SL classes that are not even close to the required rigor, and won’t get them any college credit.

I’m guessing the hope is making diploma required weeds out the students that drag down the participation statistics that make the IB program look bad. But if you’re offering only one advanced coursework program to a high school, you need to choose one that serves most students the best, not a very narrow slice of the cohort. The rigidity of IB program make it a poor choice for many students.

The point is IB is not as good as AP, it’s too expensive to maintain two advanced programs, so given the option the district should go with what works for most of the student body. [/quote]

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